China News Service, December 27th, the Ministry of Education held a press conference on the 27th to introduce the "Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Modern Vocational Education System Construction" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions") issued by the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council .
Chen Ziji, director of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education, said at the meeting that the functional orientation of vocational education has shifted from "job seeking" to "people-oriented", and more attention should be paid to the comprehensive development of serving people.
Vocational education is an important way to promote employment, but it is by no means pure employment education.
Chen Ziji mentioned that the "Opinions" broke the traditional cognition of "dwarfing" and "narrowing" vocational education, directly addressed the difficulties and pain points in the reform practice, and proposed a series of new ideas, new viewpoints, and new judgments, which are very theoretical and practical. practical value.
First, the functional orientation of vocational education has shifted from "job seeking" to "people-oriented", paying more attention to the all-round development of serving people.
Vocational education is an important way to promote employment, but it is by no means pure employment education.
The "Opinions" reiterated the positioning of vocational education, which is to serve the all-round development of people, establish and improve a gradient vocational education and training system with multi-form connection, multi-channel growth, and sustainable development, and promote the coordinated development and mutual integration of vocational and general education, so that different Students with endowments and needs can choose multiple times and become talents in a variety of ways. This will play a major role in reversing the society's contempt for vocational education and dispelling the educational anxiety caused by the diversion of vocational education.
Second, the focus of vocational education reform has shifted from "education" to "production and education", with more emphasis on serving economic and social development.
The integration of production and education is the basic feature of modern vocational education, and it is also the biggest advantage, and it is also the difficulty and focus of reform.
The "Opinions" confronts the blockage problem in the integration of industry and education, adheres to systematic thinking, and proposes the system design of building a city-region industry-education consortium and an industry-industry-education integration community, binding vocational education with industry progress, industrial transformation, and regional development. , give full play to their respective advantages, innovate a positive interaction mechanism, and solve the problem of low matching between the supply side of talent training and the demand side of the industry.
The third is that the field of vocational education services has shifted from "regional" to "overall", paying more attention to supporting the new development pattern.
Based on the new development pattern, the "Opinions" plan and deploy the development of vocational education in both domestic and international fields.
On the one hand, serve regional economic and social development, promote production through education, assist education through production, integrate production and education, and cooperate with industry and academia, and promote the formation of a modern vocational education structure and regional layout that adapt to market demand and industrial structure; on the other hand On the one hand, based on regional advantages, development strategies, pillar industries and talent needs, establish and improve an international cooperation mechanism for vocational education, so that my country's vocational education will change from "one-way introduction and reference" to "two-way joint construction and sharing", and serve the country's "Belt and Road" initiative. Serving international production capacity cooperation and Chinese enterprises going out, gradually forming an international development model of vocational education with Chinese characteristics.
Fourth, the development path of vocational education has shifted from "classification" to "synergy", and more attention has been paid to the coordinated innovation of the three educations.
Vocational education and general education are two different types of education with equal importance, but they are neither parallel nor opposed.
On the basis of consolidating the characteristics of vocational education types and improving the key school-running capabilities of vocational schools, the "Opinions" further clarifies the positioning of vocational education types, coordinates the collaborative innovation of vocational education, higher education, and continuing education, and moves from "different" to "synergistic". These types of education have complementary advantages and cross-integration, and all obey and serve the common goal of "running education that satisfies the people", obey and serve the common great cause of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way.
Fifth, the main body of vocational education has changed from "single" to "multiple", and more attention has been paid to the participation of social forces.
Deepening the reform of the vocational education system construction is an integrated project. The core strength is to establish a development mechanism for the government, industry, enterprises, and schools to cooperate with each other. The core goal is to complete the school-running pattern that is mainly organized by the government to be managed by the government and multi-participated in the society. change.
The "Opinions" made new deployments in terms of the form and content of running schools, encouraged and supported localities and key industries to combine their own characteristics and advantages, and take the lead in experimenting, making breakthroughs, and leading demonstrations in the reform of the vocational education system.